Chapter 194: Nosebleed comes out, young man can't eat this!

Li Long had heard before that Codonopsis pilosula that had not been dug for many years in the deep mountains would be very large. After all, this thing is not as valuable as ginseng, and there are so many in the Tianshan Mountains, stretching for hundreds of kilometers from the east line to the west line, with few people and many resources, and no one digs it.

It's just that I didn't expect that digging one casually would have such a big head!

He was a bit dumbfounded, he just wanted to dig a piece as thick as a chopstick to chew and quench his thirst!

But it has already been dug, so let's continue.

He stood one end of the stick on the ground, stepped on it hard with his foot, broke the stick, split out a sharp wooden tip, and began to continue digging.

The head of the Codonopsis pilosula was dug out for more than ten centimeters, it was really as thick as Li Qiang's arm, not an exaggeration at all, and as soon as it was dug out, the skin of the Codonopsis pilosula cracked—Li Long guessed it should be growing in the soil and bound by the surrounding soil, so it was relatively complete. As soon as it was dug out, there was no binding around it, and the juice inside was relatively rich, so it burst open.

This Codonopsis pilosula grew very neatly, the head part had no branches, straight up and down, it was thickest when it reached thirty centimeters below, and then it became thin below, with hairy roots, but Li Long didn't care, anyway, it's not a valuable thing.

He remembered chatting with Chen Hongjun, the Codonopsis pilosula harvesting season in September and October, the acquisition price of Codonopsis pilosula dry goods in their purchasing station and medicinal material company was no more than twenty yuan per kilogram.

This one dug out, can it have half a kilogram, two or three hundred grams after drying?

Calculated this way, it's actually quite profitable, right? It should be no problem to dig ten or so a day, right? Thirty or fifty yuan?

Li Long suddenly felt that there was something to do!

While thinking and digging, when he was a bit tired and ready to change hands, he saw Tao Daqiang also dig a pit three or five meters away. Tao Daqiang's movements were much faster than his. Li Long stood up and looked, and found that the one Tao Daqiang dug, although not as thick as his, was also about three centimeters in diameter.

Not small.

Li Long dug for half an hour and dug out this nearly one-meter-long Codonopsis pilosula. The overall shape was a bit like an irregular human character, branching at a quarter of the bottom, one thick and one thin.

He filled the dug soil back, mainly because he was worried that if there was a heavy rain, the dug pit would easily be washed out into a cliff, and then there would be soil erosion.

There is this possibility.

Ten minutes later, Tao Daqiang's one was also dug out, shorter than Li Long's, but more like a human shape, with two "arms", but no legs.

"Brother Long, just eat it like this?" Tao Daqiang saw Li Long fill the soil back, so he followed suit and asked Li Long excitedly.

"This..." Li Long felt that eating it like this was really a bit of a waste, but keeping this thing, no need to guess, it will definitely be empty after drying, not full, and of little use.

"Go, wash it, eat two bites from the root, don't eat too much, I'm afraid of your nosebleed."

Codonopsis pilosula supplements qi and blood, treats spleen and stomach deficiency, eating too much for people with strong blood like Li Long and Tao Daqiang is definitely not good.

Taking Tao Daqiang to find a spring at the bottom of the ditch, after washing it clean, Li Long took a bite, about five centimeters, chewing carefully.

Tao Daqiang also took a bite, and then said with a smile while eating:

"It's quite delicious."

He finished eating in two or three bites, and took another bite.

Li Long was speechless, you kid, just wait.

"Brother Long, you're bleeding from your nose..." Tao Daqiang suddenly pointed at Li Long and said.

Li Long wiped his nose, sure enough!

Damn, so fast?

"You're the same." Li Long said to Tao Daqiang while washing, "Alright, let's not eat it, take it back and dry it."

Li Long didn't know how many years this Codonopsis pilosula had, the medicinal effect was definitely strong enough.

Li Long blindly guessed that there was another reason for their nosebleed, which was that young people have hot blood and sufficient qi and blood.

Tao Daqiang put the Codonopsis pilosula into the urea bag with some regret, this is quite delicious, but he can't eat it anymore.

The two returned to the wooden house with one Codonopsis pilosula each. Li Long threw the Codonopsis pilosula directly on the shelf in the small room to dry naturally. With this climate in the mountains, there is no need to worry about mold.

"Brother Long, can I take this back, I plan to boil water for my dad to drink, is it okay for them to drink this?"

"It's okay, it must be quite good." Li Long said with a smile, "Wait until you leave, you can dig more. The current Codonopsis pilosula effect is worse. Wait until autumn, the stalks on it dry up, dig it out and dry it, it won't be empty, that's good."

"Okay!" Tao Daqiang said excitedly.

Li Long went to wash the mushrooms, cut them simply, then set up a pot on the stove piled up with a few stones outside, hit a bucket of water from the spring not far away, poured it into the pot, and started boiling mushroom soup.

Tao Daqiang walked around outside and picked up a handful of dead branches, prepared to light a fire at the other stone stove. He pulled out a burning piece of wood from the fire pile lit by Li Long, stuffed it under the stove, he had already stuffed a few handfuls of dry grass and some thin branches under the wood, and soon, the fire at that stove also burned up.

"Stick some dead flour cakes." Li Long said, "Let's do it simply, we didn't hit anything today, so let's eat casually, and try to eat well tomorrow."

After eating and extinguishing the stove fire, the sky hadn't darkened yet, Li Long said to Tao Daqiang:

"Go to sleep early today, get up early tomorrow, get up earlier than usual to take the nets, let's go see if there are any wild boars. By the way, remember to lock the door at night, remember the matter I said last time."

"Brother Long, I know." Tao Daqiang entered the small room and locked it from the inside.

Tired for a day, Li Long lay on the wooden kang and fell asleep soon.

The biological clock is really a magical thing. He remembered to get up early, and woke up while it was still dark.

Looking outside, Li Long estimated the time, it should be almost time, so he rubbed his face and got up to put on clothes.

It was quite cold in the room, he put it on, carried the gun, opened the door and went out, then knocked on the window of the small room.

The window was a wooden frame window, nailed with plastic cloth. He knocked, and Tao Daqiang inside responded immediately:

"Brother Long?"

"Yeah, get up, let's go find wild boars."

"Okay, I'll be out in a minute."

Tao Daqiang came out, carrying the small caliber gun, Li Long pointed in a direction, and he followed immediately.

"Wild boars come out quite early, so we also have to get up early. But yesterday I didn't see the traces of wild boars arching out. Today we patrol the ditch, walk all the way, walk to the east, and come back when we are almost at Xiaobaiyang ditch. If we see it, we hit it. If we don't see it, we'll wait until daytime to find deer."

"Okay." Tao Daqiang nodded vigorously.

The two walked one after another along the sheep path to the east. Compared with walking deeper into the mountains yesterday, today they mainly walked on the outer mountains—from the outermost dirt mountains to the fourth or fifth layer of mountains inside. Here the north side is a grass slope, the south side is a pine forest, pine cones will roll down, and there are usually springs at the bottom of the ditch, which will grow some plants that like shade and moisture. According to Li Long's previous experience, wild boars usually like to come to such places.

Walking through two mountain ditches, there was a fish-belly white in the east, but the stars in the sky were still quite bright, and they could see clearly.

There was no discovery, and Li Long himself was a bit disappointed.

Did I find the wrong place? He decided to walk another ditch to the east. If he couldn't find anything, he would walk another layer of mountains inside, and then walk back.

When walking to the head of this ditch, Li Long had a premonition that there was something below!

Although he didn't hear any movement, he still took the gun off his shoulder, and his movements slowed down a lot.

Tao Daqiang followed suit, immediately held the small caliber in his hand, and walked forward bent over in parallel with Li Long.

This side of the mountain top was a bit flat. Li Long quietly walked out ten or so steps forward, walked to the place where he was about to go downhill, and saw a half-grown wild boar arching grass roots and eating forty or fifty meters in front, arching a few times and eating a few mouthfuls, then raised its head and looked around.

Very unexpectedly, there was only one half-grown wild boar, and I don't know if it was lost or driven out of the wild boar group.

Li Long had several experiences, this distance was just right, he immediately half-squatted down, opened the safety, pulled the bolt to push the bullet into the chamber.

Although the sound of pulling the bolt was very small, it still spread very far in this quiet night, and the wild boar that was bowing its head raised its head suddenly!

Tao Daqiang subconsciously wanted to shout, but immediately covered his mouth!

"Bang bang!"

Li Long pulled the trigger twice in a row. When the wild boar exerted force and prepared to run, the bullet flew out!

So in Tao Daqiang's eyes, the wild boar jumped up in the air and was about to run, when suddenly its body softened, fell heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then didn't move.

"Go!" Li Long closed the safety and put away the gun, and ran toward there quickly.

!.

He just ran halfway, and then looked into the distance.

This mountain slope ditch head was almost more than a hundred meters, barely able to see a big guy running quickly out of the ditch, soon rushed to the opposite mountain slope, and then disappeared at the top of the mountain.

"Brother Long, what was that?" Tao Daqiang also saw that guy, but he felt it was too late, and when he saw it, that guy had already rushed to the top and went offline.

"It should be a red deer." Li Long's expression was a bit complicated, "And it might be a male deer."

He actually thought it was a big wild boar at first, but soon found it wasn't. The antlers (velvet) on the male deer's head betrayed its identity.

Li Long felt a bit sorry. If I didn't hit the wild boar, observe and observe, could I find that red deer?

But there is no regret medicine to sell. Li Long pointed to the wild boar that was already motionless and said:

"Go, go down and clean it up."

The wild boar is not big, now the gross weight is fifty kilograms, it should be the nest pad of last year, and it hasn't grown up yet.

As for why it was left alone, Li Long didn't know.

Tao Daqiang handed the small caliber to Li Long and carried the wild boar on his shoulder, walking back with big strides.

"Be careful not to get blood on your clothes." Li Long reminded.

"What's there to be afraid of, just wash it in a while." Tao Daqiang felt that he didn't contribute to hitting the wild boar, so the heavy work was naturally for him to do, otherwise how could he have the face to eat meat?

When the wild boar was carried to the winter nest, even if Tao Daqiang was strong again, he was tired and panting.

Actually, Li Long wanted to change shoulders halfway, but Tao Daqiang refused firmly.

The sky was already bright, Li Long put away the gun, Tao Daqiang sat on the wooden floor outside and panted to rest, Li Long went to set up the fire, after the stove fire was lit, he took a big basin from the room and said to Daqiang:

"You rest for a while, I'll open the wild boar and skin it."

Skinning is a delicate job, Tao Daqiang can't do it. Although opening the stomach is relatively simple, Tao Daqiang didn't dare to start, so he helped Li Long.

After the wild boar's stomach was opened, a dirty smell came to his face, Li Long hurriedly turned his head.

"It's a pity. I've been busy lately, otherwise, if I carried this wild boar back and called some young guys in the team, I could clean up the horse pen."

Li Long said while pulling the wild boar's internal organs into the basin.

"There are many wild boars in this mountain. After we hit the deer, let's stay for a few more days, hit a wild boar and then go down the mountain." Compared to the team, Tao Daqiang likes staying in the mountains more.

"That's fine. Let's fix the wild boar meat today and smoke it. Clean the internal organs in the evening, prepare some blood here, maybe we can hit a wolf in the middle of the night." Li Long had experience, or rather a lesson. He piled all the internal organs in a big basin, and then began to skin the wild boar, saying while skinning, "Getting a wolf is also good."

Tao Daqiang was a bit nervous when he heard about the wolf, and said:

"Will that guy bite people?"

"If it's in a hurry, it will definitely bite people, but there's no need to be afraid, we have guns."

Tao Daqiang carried the basin to handle the internal organs, Li Long skinned here, and when the sun rose, the wild boar meat had been divided into many pieces, and the internal organs were also handled.

Tao Daqiang had worked with the team several times. Although turning the intestines was not skilled, he didn't break them.

"Stick cakes in the morning, I'll stir-fry some wild boar miscellaneous." Li Long said, "No green chili, just use dry chili, this wild boar miscellaneous is fresh and delicious."

He put away the wild boar stomach, and now he has saved quite a lot.

There are several dried ones of this thing, and I don't know if this dried one is useful.

Tao Daqiang also knew how to stick cakes, so this job was handed to him, while Li Long cut the pork miscellaneous on the big wooden board, and then started stir-frying.

This meal, the two ate with oily mouths, very enjoyable.

After eating, Li Long cut some green branches in the pine forest, came back and built a smoking room on the side of the wooden house, lit a fire under the smoking room, and after the fire was lit, pressed green pine branches on it, and hung strips of meat rubbed with salt above the smoking room.

"Okay, let this meat smoke, wild animals won't come over," Li Long said while carrying the gun, "Go, let's walk around again to see if we can find deer."

Li Long planned to walk to the southwest this time, which is the deeper direction. There are not many mountain heads that can be walked near the Mahe, Li Long decided to walk to the Mahe and then return.

Ate well in the morning, the two had oil in their stomachs, and should be able to walk a bit more today.

Walking all the way to the Mahe, Li Long didn't find any traces of red deer, he was a bit disappointed.

Crossing a mountain inside, he planned to return every other mountain ridge.

Then he saw a few roe deer, leisurely eating grass under the pine tree head on the flat top of the mountain slope in front.

Li Long's eyes lit up!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 195 =====